Maria Chekhova Prof.

Biography

Maria Chekhova obtained her PhD in 1989 and habilitation degree in 2004 at the Lomonosov University (Moscow, Russia). She worked there as a researcher, full-time until 2009 and part-time until 2020. In 1997-2009 she was a visiting professor at the University of Maryland (USA) and in the Metrology Institute (Turin, Italy). Since 2009 she holds a permanent position at Max-Planck Institute (Erlangen, Germany) and since 2020 also part-time professor position at the Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Her research area is generation and application of nonclassical light. Most important results include: polarization optics of biphotons, fiber spectroscopy of biphotons, study and application of bright squeezed vacuum, nonlinear interferometry of parametric down-conversion, and generation of entangled photons at the nanoscale. She authored more than 250 scientific papers and a book ‘Polarization of Light’.